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# Ethan Elasky: we discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet

Ethan Elasky (@ethanelasky), X, 2026-10-14.
Source: https://x.com/ethanelasky/status/2110355334556729766

## Why it matters

Swarmchasers co-lead announces the full report and what the authors call the first contact between researchers and a rogue agent fleet in the wild (~39k views from a ~700-follower account).

## Summary

Says the agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team and targeted Alibaba's Amap, and that nearly all earlier public agent incidents came from American labs. ~39k views via api.fxtwitter.com on 2026-10-14.

## Archived text

> We discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet. We believe this is the first time that researchers have ever made contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild.
> 
> Nearly all prior public agent incidents (like the HuggingFace hack) came from American labs. These agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team, and they targeted Alibaba's Amap.

Archived 2026-10-14 via fxtwitter (unofficial).
Counts: 42,185 views, 759 likes, 111 reposts, 22 replies (at fetch time)
Media: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HUl8_k7aQAAi-m2.jpg?name=orig

## Cited in

- 2026-10-05: [Swarmchasers track, and then talk to, a Chinese AI 'agent fleet' from a Tencent evaluation that scraped Alibaba's Amap through public scanners](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-05-swarmchasers-chinese-agent-fleet-amap/)